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Pain | History, 21st Century | Analgesics | psychology | Pain Management | History, 20th Century | Politics | history | Health Policy

There is a growing conflict in medicine between the research imperative, with its implicit goal of overcoming death itself, and the re-emergent clinical... 
History, 20th Century | Terminal care | History, 19th Century | Palliative Care | Palliative treatment | History | Neoplasms | Euthanasia | palliative medicine | Medical research | Palliative care | Religion | Dying | Pain control | Anglo saxon | Scientific medicine | Cancer | Secular worldview

This important book fills a need in the developing area of Pain Medicine, providing physicians with an up-to-date resource that would detail the current... 
Complementary Therapies | therapy | Pain | Other branches of medicine | Integrative medicine | Neurology | Pain Medicine | Medicine & Public Health | Rheumatology | Internal Medicine | Anesthesiology | Psychiatry

How we die reveals much about how we live. In this provocative book, Shai Lavi traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing... 
Euthanasia | History | United States | Sociology

Now in a revised and updated second edition, this practical guide remains an invaluable resource for improving the management of hip and pelvis injuries and... 
Sports Medicine | injuries | therapy | methods | Hip Injuries | diagnosis | Pelvis | Other branches of medicine | Sports medicine | Medicine: General Issues | Orthopedics | Hip joint | Treatment | Primary care (Medicine) | Wounds and injuries | General Practice / Family Medicine | Primary Care Medicine | Medicine & Public Health | Physiotherapy

The early modern period is a particularly fascinating chapter in the history of pain. This volume investigates early modern constructions of physical pain from... 
History, 17th Century | History, Early Modern 1451-1600 | Pain | Literature | Religious aspects | Christianity | history | Culture | History | Europe

Anesthesia, Conduction | therapy | Pain

Psychological aspects | Mental healing | Mind and body | Medicine and psychology | Psychology | Placebos (Medicine) | Sick | Hope

Expanding on the first edition with a number of timely new features, this practical handbook includes the revised recommendations from the American Geriatrics... 
diagnosis | Aged | Pain | therapy | Pain in old age | Medicine: General Issues | Pain - diagnosis | Analgesia

This is a revised and expanded edition of a classic in palliative medicine, originally pulished in 1991. With three new chapters and a new preface summarizing... 
Medicine | Other branches of medicine | palliative medicine | Suffering | Sick person | Palliative medicine | Disease | Physicians | Pain management | Antiquity | Training techniques | Patient | Stomach cancer | Physician and patient | Palliative treatment

This is a revised and expanded edition of a classic in palliative medicine, originally pulished in 1991. With three new chapters and a new preface summarizing... 
Medicine | Other branches of medicine | palliative medicine | Suffering | Sick person | Palliative medicine | Disease | Physicians | Pain management | Antiquity | Training techniques | Patient | Stomach cancer | Physician and patient | Palliative treatment

Palliative care is now an integral part of the undergraduate medical curriculum. Medical education across the board is adopting a case-based approach. This... 
Advance Care Planning | Palliative Care | Pain Management | palliative medicine | Palliative treatment | Case studies | Case-based approach | Last days | Medical education | Palliative care | Palliative sedation | Research | Clinical practice | Neurological disorders

Chronic pain is a medical mystery, debilitating to patients and a source of frustration for practitioners. It often eludes both cause and cure and serves as a... 
Psychological aspects | Pain | Treatment | Midwest Pain Group | Pain Management | Psychophysiology | Medicine, Psychosomatic | Pain medicine

Animal experimentation | Moral and ethical aspects

A one-stop reference for clinicians at all levels faced with uncommon problems in acute medicine.. 
Medical emergencies | Critical care medicine | Handbooks, manuals, etc | Emergency medicine